Posted by bleauberry on February 22, 2009, at 10:29:52
I have noticed that traffic here on the Alternative Board is rather slow lately. Too bad. I wonder why? I think targeted treatments with natural things can enhance medication success, as Lau Tzu seems to have discovered.
Anyway, specifically, there is an herb that is a precription antidepressant in Germany, it comes out about equal with SSRIs and TCAs in numerous trials, but doesn't seem to get hardly any mention here ever. Maybe once or twice a year. I wonder why that is?
In my early days before things really got screwed up, St Johns Wort was actually the best antidepressant I ever took, by a long shot. It blew the pharmaceuticals in the weeds.
Different story these days. Other overlapping illnesses, complexities, and that mysterious longterm ssri syndrome thing.
For someone early in their psychiatric journey however, I truly feel a trial of a good brand should be tried before getting a prescription. By good brand, I mean the clinical study ones, which are Kira or Perika. New Chapter makes a good one too from what I've heard. Strange though, two that worked great for me, and I couldn't tell them apart, were the el cheapos from Rite Aid and the Walmart brand Spring Valley.
Anyway, just a passing thought, I found it weird there is not much discussion at this board, and even weirder that St Johns Wort is AWOL.
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